The Blog: April 2010

Apr 28
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It’s My Gem In A Box

by David Czarnecki

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Hey developers, I got something real important to give you. So just sit down, and listen.

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Apr 19
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Packaging For Pleasure

by David Czarnecki

Let me be more explicit and say I’m going to be talking about Rails application packaging. Sorry, I needed a good post title for the lulz and the page views.

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Apr 9
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As It Turns Out, Faking It Is OK

by David Czarnecki

This post is totally SFW. That’s all your going to get in this teaser.

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Apr 7
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The Importance of Having a (Fast) Test Suite

by David Czarnecki

Speed is the name of the game. Or is it?

I was adding another project to our Continuous Integration (CI) server that runs the test suite for a project after code is checked in and started noticing the time it takes to build certain projects. A few interesting statistics for you to noodle on.

Average build time: ~32 seconds

Max build time: 1 hour and 48 minutes

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